ennobling
/ɪnˈoʊblɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences."
- "He checks criticism by multiplying the cause for embarrassment and taking it on himself; and this brings the act into the structure of an ennobling chivalric deed."
- "It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account."
- "They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it."